Why high CPU usage by iCloudServices.exe?

I have Windows 7 x64 too, and I have iCloudServices.exe constantly using 33% of CPU despite no data to be synched.

Same for me, and it's also using a ridiculous amount of memory. I have turned off all the syncing except the calendar/contacts option because the rest doesn't work anyway. It's currently at 577MB and growing. This is after only one day of runtime as I too reinstalled yesterday.

Really?

Same for me on Windows 10 64bit, heats up my Laptop. I can kill the iCloud32 task then it's again normal. But suddenly it begins again, might be after days.

I had exactly the same problem. Had no idea my cpu was overheating until I routinely opened Speccy. It showed the cpu at 95C. Task Manager showed iCloud was using 99% of my cpu cycles (i5-2500K, all cores at 4012 Hz). My cpu temp rarely reaches 70C even during heavy usage. I can live w/o a program that threatens to fry my cpu, so I uninstalled iCloud.

This obviously has nothing to do with Internet Explorer or any browser whatsoever. It is a really bad software error in this process. I have it, too.

The only way to fight it for now is to kill it and restart iCloud from Start menu -- until Apple will release update for it.

I also have this problem since a few weeks back. I'm running Windows 10 pro. Would be nice if Apple also could fix the photo synch. Must be a known problem for years by now.

I had the same problem. I fixed it by uninstalling all the apple programs on my PC, deleting the common files\apple folders in c:\program files and c:\program (x86), then did a forced uninstall of icloud,with Revo Uninstaller which cleaned up all the files and registry entries. I then reinstalled iTunes and iCloud and it.works fine now..

Same problem. Using Windows 7. Only photos are enabled to sync. Been this way for a long time and just have not used iCloud until I paid for it. Now I would like to resolve it. It seems the Windows OS does not matter though.

Same problem, Windows 7 64 bit. Been happening for a while now, I woke up today and when I got on my computer it was happening again. I have a 6-core CPU so it's only using 33%, but it's also consuming a hilarious 1.9GB of memory. I checked resource monitor, it's not reading anything from disk. Only fix is to kill the process.

I have the same problem.

Decided by writing a script in PowerShell, and periodically run through the Windows scheduler.

That is, created a file called "icloud_restart.ps1 " with the following content:

"

Stop-Process -Name iCloudServices -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Start-Sleep -s 60

Start-Process -FilePath "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Internet Services\iCloud.exe"

Start-Sleep -s 20

Stop-Process -Name iCloud -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

"

Then, set the scheduler to run this file every 8 hours.

I understand that it's a crutch, but it works.

I would be grateful for comments/corrections.

Thank you.

Well done, Mike.

If it's possible for people patch together a palliative so promptly, could it mean that Apple are rather unduly dragging their feet in eliminating the problem? Generally speaking, competition is a good thing; but between them, Microsoft and Apple seem to be running headlong in the race around the development circuit, w/o due attention to critical details. For my part, I will forgo iCloud until Apple deal with it.

I just kill the useless PoS exec and stop it running on startup via MSConfig. I discovered it doesn't need to run all the time. I've had problems with the Outlook plug-in for ages anyway, so only run it 'on demand'. When you start the plug-in it starts this thing and then you can synch with your other devices

I run the plug-in about twice a week (it causes outlook to hang on switching to the calendar) so is sufficient, if cumbersome.

I don't think they should be calling this 'integrated with Windows and Outlook'. Far from it.

Time to start contemplating an Android device for my next upgrade.